Our Expertise

Management Reporting

• Provide profitability reporting and analysis
• For organization and product
• For segment, customer, branch or channel
• Develop business planning and forecasting
• Develop performance measurement systems that meet risk management goals
• Financial performance metrics – EVA and RAROC
• Establish financial review check points and planning calendars
• Design, select and implement appropriate financial reporting systems
• Perform accounting systems upgrades and conversions
• Develop best practice Management Discussion and Analysis Disclosure (MD&A)

Strategic Planning

• Identify key performance drivers
• Ensure drivers support strategic goals
• Align compensation programs to goals
• Develop strategic re-positioning

Financial Industry “Best Practices”

• Capital allocations
• Funds transfer pricing
• Cost allocations and activity-based cost management

Expense Control Initiatives

• Develop and implement cost cutting programs
• Post-merger integration
• Process Re-engineering
• Outsourcing assessments
• Improve working capital efficiencies
• Shared Service Centers design and implementation

Global Accounting Standards

• IAS versus GAAP
• Fair Value Accounting versus historic Cost Accounting for financial instruments
• Accounting formats – online data-tagging standard Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL)
• Develop policies and procedures manuals

Financial Consulting Case Studies

“Implementing a Sound Strategic Business Plan to Reverse Losses”

“Implementing a New Foreign Exchange Platform”

Business Process Consulting

Managing finances during a period of growth can a challenge. To sustain growth, you must provide a greater level of financial infrastructure. As your business gets more complex, your management accounting systems must evolve as well. But when the company is heavily focused on achieving growth, it can be difficult to find the internal resources you need to keep your financial analysis at pace.

Global Atlantic Partners provides top financial executives with extensive domestic and international experience to address your needs for sound financial controls and reporting. We can help you:

Manage growth with better reporting and analysis

An inadequate financial management system can hamper the growth of your organization. Global Atlantic Partners can help you develop new processes for reporting and analysis that will allow you to manage and fuel growth.

Avoid risk with the aid of our experienced professionals

Aligning financial reporting and analysis with the strategic vision and goals of your company is an important aspect of risk management. With decades of experience in financial analysis and risk management, our financial consultants will prove a valuable addition to your risk management efforts.

Get help with implementation

You've got plenty of people telling you what you need to do. Our financial consultants will actually help you get it done. Experienced in managing, expanding, acquiring and turning around a wide range of businesses, we have the skills to implement our own recommendations.

Helpful resources

Here are several important and helpful links to financial analysis resources.

Institute of Management Accountants
www.imanet.org

Association for Management Information in Financial Services
www.amifs.org